Steelers' Aaron Rodgers Posts Photo With Brother After Years of Estrangement

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers posted a photo with his younger brother, Jordan Rodgers, on Friday night after years of estrangement.

Jordan Rodgers, an ESPN analyst, was in Pittsburgh to call the Florida State-Pitt game at Acrisure Stadium.

"Great to see little bro @jrodgers11 in his element tonight @acrisurestadium," Aaron Rodgers said in the caption. "Really proud of how hard he's worked to get to where he is now."

Aaron Rodgers stopped by the ESPN broadcast booth during the college game to see his brother. In the Instagram photo, the brothers grin and hold each other in an embrace.

The split between the brothers became public in 2016, when Jordan Rodgers was a contestant on The Bachelorette.

On the show, Jordan Rodgers said he did not have much of a relationship with his older brother. He has been married to JoJo Fletcher, the woman he met on that season, since 2022.

Aaron Rodgers, 42, said earlier this year that he had ended the estrangement with his family, including older brother Luke Rodgers.

"There was some stuff there," Aaron Rodgers said on Sept. 10, "and I could tell I was coming to a time where I needed to make it right. I went to Nashville and met up with my older brother, and a couple weeks after that, met up with my little brother. It was cool."

Aaron Rodgers credited his wife with helping bring the family back together.

In his final NFL season, Aaron Rodgers has 1,871 passing yards, 13 passing touchdowns and six interceptions. The Steelers are 6-2. 

Pittsburgh ranks 26th in the NFL in dropback EPA and 27th in dropback success rate, according to rbsdm figures cited by Athlon Sports' Jobe Morrison. Morrison listed drops, injuries, and Rodgers' limits as the things holding the passing game back.

Offensive coordinator Brian Angelichio went back through all of it during the bye week. He met with reporters Monday.

"We still got a long ways to go, but certainly pleased with where we are going," Angelichio said, per Steeler Nation.

"I think the passing game is like anything, it's a work in progress," Angelichio said. "We see some good things, and then we take a dive into what are we doing? How do we help our players? Do we have the right concepts? Are we putting them in the best positions? It's probably a little bit of everything."

Two of Rodgers' top three receivers from Week 1 are on injured reserve, Athlon reported. When all three were healthy in Weeks 3 and 4, Pittsburgh ranked 13th in dropback EPA and 12th in dropback success rate, Athlon noted before the bye.

The Steelers list Rodgers at 175 completions on 288 throws for 1,871 yards. That's 6.5 yards per attempt. He's getting the ball out in 2.57 seconds, compared with 2.6 last season, according to Pro Football Focus. PFF also has his average target 7.4 yards downfield. It was 6.6 yards last year.

The dropback EPA is -0.069 and the success rate is 42%. The first two weeks dragged both down, Morrison wrote, and the passing game has been better since Week 3.

Pittsburgh went into the bye 26th in red-zone efficiency, scoring touchdowns on 50% of its trips, according to Athlon. Angelichio said Nov. 2 that the staff would look at its play calls near the goal line.